Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry continues to press his fundraising advantage, with over $200,000 recently raised according to his re-election campaign's latest filings.
With the first round of post-qualifying receipts in the books, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry holds a cash lead over challengers, including Jacksonville City Councilwoman Anna Brosche. Brosche’s first finance report through the qualifying deadline showed $22,100 raised, with $15,000 of that from the candidate herself. She has roughly $11,000 on hand, putting her on par with a third […]
Jacksonville’s First Election is now behind us, and with that, we have an opportunity to evaluate the public and internal polling that preceded the Mayoral election. The University of North Florida poll from early March was the public poll that was most cited in the local media, and they polled for both the Mayor’s and Sheriff’s races. […]
The fever in the room built all evening and by the time Jacksonville Mayoral candidate Lenny Curry took the stage at about 9, he got the rock star response an electoral winner could expect. And why not? Just hours after many in the Smart Set predicted Mayor Alvin Brown would clear 50 percent to avoid a runoff, […]
The fever in the room built all evening and by the time Jacksonville Mayoral candidate Lenny Curry took the stage at about 9, he got the rock star response an electoral winner could expect. And why not? Just hours after many in the Smart Set predicted Mayor Alvin Brown would clear 50 percent to avoid a runoff, […]
The Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) congratulated its former chairman Lenny Curry Tuesday night for advancing to the runoff election for Jacksonville’s next mayor. “The RPOF congratulates Lenny Curry on a hard-fought race and for advancing to the general election in the Jacksonville mayor’s race,” current RPOF Chair Blaise Ingoglia wrote in a statement. “As a […]
It’s not over yet. Before Jacksonville knows who its next mayor will be, residents must got to the polls once again. This time voters will decide a May 19 runoff between incumbent Alvin Brown and challenger Lenny Curry. Brown, the first Democrat elected to the office since Ed Austin in 1991, took a 5-point lead […]
While waiting for Lenny Curry and his family to arrive at Southside United Methodist Church, Curry spokesman Brian Hughes asked me to get out a calculator, to demonstrate that the Democratic advantage in raw vote totals was indeed shrinking. I subtracted the raw Republican vote totals from those on the Democrat side, and the spread was 3,400, a net […]
With early voting concluded, Duval Democrats appear to have a turnout advantage heading into Tuesday’s election. At last update, 40,983 Democrats had voted, compared with 36,439 Republicans and 9.807 voters outside the two-party structure. The final three days of early voting, which saw 19,387 voters, corresponded with a surge in turnout by registered Democrats. Total […]
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